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Sweat: The Taboo Fluid That Keeps Us Alive | Orbitals 408
17 minutes Posted Sep 16, 2021 at 10:00 am.
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Sweat is this thing that many of us seem to loathe, but also pay a lot of money to do while being yelled at by professionals. So what is sweat? And why do we do it? And why are we often so embarrassed by it? This episode features writer Sarah Everts, who recently wrote a book called The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration.